RE: Halogen lights / Transformers

["Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>]

Some electronic transformers can kill the X10 signal!

M.



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>Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 10:50 PM
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>Subject: [ukha_d] Halogen lights / Transformers
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>Hi Paul,
>
>I don't know if you saw my osting but bieng 'into' electricity
>have you any ideas on this
>
>I've finally cracked and decided to look at the Halogen lights
>in one of the rooms to find out how they have been installed and
>this is what I've got, what I'm after is info on the possibilty
>of dimming these via x10....
>
>Here goes - oh and by the way most of this means nothing to me
>but I *can* turn off the mains and wire up modules!
>
>The WALL switch is a Busch-Jaeger dimmer 240v @ 50hz
>
>There are 11 Halogen lights arranged in a circle.
>
>Each Halogen light has a transformer 'attached' The input
>voltage is 230-240v @50hz the output voltage is 11.5v [max 2m]
>(I'm assuming that the [max 2m] means a maximum distace from the
>transformer is 2meters(?))
>
>The transformers are all the same, are made by OSRAM and have
>the following on them:
>
>Halotronic HTM 70/230 240
>Electronic Transformer
>20-70w
>Dimming by leading edge
>Phase control for inductive loads
>
>
>I was wondering if this meant I could use a standard LW10U to
>dim them, seeing as the wall dimmer is a 240V one... does that
>make sense?
>
>thanks
>
>Andy
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